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...remark on the size of their breasts, or use ethnic slurs. Two targets of other posts did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday. The president of gay rights group HLS Lambda, Adam R. Sorkin, said he was disturbed by the homophobic tone of many of the threads after doing a search for the word “faggot.” “I was shocked by the number of posts that used that term in referring to people in a derogatory sense,” he said. Since employers can follow students through Google and other...
...Does the difference in tone suggest a split within the Bush Administration? Not really, says Cordesman. "I think they are speaking to different constituencies, and with different priorities," he explains. "There is going to be a lot of good cop-bad cop, and tactics vs. strategic rhetoric coming out of U.S. officers and officials simply because that is what their jobs require...
Though Rice sets the policy tone, she provides her sidemen with room to improvise. "She gives people a lot of autonomy," says Burns. "She trusts us to go out on these negotiations three, four, five days at a time." That paid off last month when Hill helped secure North Korea's agreement to eliminate, in principle, its nuclear-weapons program--a deal that infuriated the Hellhole Gang's hard-line rivals. And yet even with Cheney's decline, the hawks could gain the upper hand again if countries like Iran and North Korea rebuff U.S.-backed diplomatic proffers...
...theme. On “Neon Bible,” the group explores the very visceral issue of fear; an issue made topical not only because of the world’s current bleakness, but also because of the fear associated with making a sophomore album. The tone of the record is reflective of this central theme—many of the songs are grandiose, gothic, even fear-inspiring themselves. Recorded mostly in a 19th-century Canadian church, the setting perfectly captures the atmospheric, organ-based melodies that drive many of the album’s dense songs, such...
...tough act to follow. After a shaky beginning, the orchestra settled in by the third movement. Schumann wrote the symphony during a dark period in his life, and Demirjian again proved his mettle by fluidly emphasizing the inherent sadness of the piece. The rich tone of the flute passages by Jonathan G. Sherman ’07 especially stood out.Yet the final movement’s resolution, stirring as it was, felt somehow anticlimactic after Bartosik’s earlier performance, prompting a nearby audience member to ask, “Is that it?”Traveling effortlessly through...